Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | The candidate will spend most the campaign making speeches throughout the constituency , not infrequently at thinly attended meetings , and canvassing door to door where possible . |
| 62 | Emmison ( London 1978 ) , and Enjoying Archives by David Iredale ( London 1985 ) . |
| 63 | He was unlike his two predecessors in not being a mendicant , or a religious at all , and in having had some experience of diocesan administration for some years in the 1280s when he was a diligent and preaching archdeacon of Essex . |
| 64 | When , however , a woman is doing the important and demanding work of child care , taking a further job must be a matter of choice and not of financial necessity . |
| 65 | The UN Security Council met repeatedly during August in response to the Gulf crisis and passed five resolutions [ see box ] , moving on from its first and immediate condemnation of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait ( Resolution 660 on Aug. 2 ) , to impose mandatory sanctions ( Resolution 661 on Aug. 6 ) , and later to allow states to use their naval forces for " measures " to ensure implementation of such sanctions ( Resolution 665 on Aug. 25 ) , while also rejecting the Iraqi annexation of Kuwait ( Resolution 662 on Aug. 9 ) and demanding freedom of departure from , and consular access to , foreign nationals in Kuwait and Iraq ( Resolution 664 of Aug. 18 ) . |
| 66 | Less severe forms of sanction include rebuke , withholding of praise and demanding repetition of work ; in more serious cases there may be referral to senior staff , detention , putting a pupil on report , writing to parents and calling them into school , referring the pupil to a special unit in the school and ultimately exclusion from school . |
| 67 | Sams , 51 , of Barrel Hill Road , Sutton on Trent , Notts , admits kidnapping Miss Slater in January , 1992 , unlawfully imprisoning her and demanding £175,000 with menaces from her then employers , Shipways Estate Agents , of Birmingham . |
| 68 | But Sams has admitted kidnapping Birmingham estate agent Stephanie Slater , unlawfully imprisoning her in January 1992 and demanding £175,000 with menaces from her then employer . |
| 69 | This takes note of the widespread area staff wish for the larger piece of time in a Region ( but also gives the shorter period too ) : it reduces a lot of sorting out of requests by the Overseas Groups and simplifies for them a pretty complicated and demanding piece of work : it means we do n't expect visitors to fly from one end of the UK & Ireland every 2 or 3 days as has sometimes happened in trying to meet a lot of requests . |
| 70 | Facile complicity with the reader is rejected in favour of a quite rigorous and demanding process of consciousness-raising , in which the legitimate social demands of an oppressed readership catalyse the revolutionary writer into becoming a stern and uncompromising task-master goading the reader into political action . |
| 71 | But he denies murdering Leeds teenager Julie Dart in July , 1991 , kidnapping her , two charges of demanding £140,000 with menaces from Leeds police , and demanding £200,000 with menaces from British Rail . |
| 72 | Many women have seen a new and demanding career at midlife as their way to satisfaction , only to find that it becomes a prime cause of problems for their husband . |
| 73 | John was an only child whose mother had died when he was at the difficult and demanding age of toddlerhood . |
| 74 | This collection of small oils , watercolours , and prints is drawn from one of the most varied and demanding bodies of work produced by a contemporary artist and serves as a valuable introduction to Gerhard Richter 's imagery . |
| 75 | A number of loyalist figures have appeared before the courts already this year charged with making threats and demanding cash from businessmen . |
| 76 | Job fairs are usually very lively and informal , and you can roam at leisure , surveying what is on offer and gathering literature on jobs you might not have considered in the everyday run of things . |
| 77 | Reviewing how the new purchasing process in functioning , and gathering information on need and demand , will also be important . |
| 78 | But the difficulty with this discussion is that it lacks a firm point of reference because it can not be taken for granted that there should be two levels of offence , rape and procuring sex by threats . |
| 79 | in summer algal blooms ( green water ) can cause problems by reduction of oxygen content at night to dangerous levels and producing supersaturation with oxygen during the day . |
| 80 | This can be produced in less than 12 hours , when previously designing and producing molds for prototypes could have taken weeks , if not months . |
| 81 | The huge canvas of Genesis , begun with the great strokes of creation and pulsating life in Eden , continued through destruction , promise , and the birth of a new nation in Canaan , is finished with the death of Joseph in Egypt . |
| 82 | Pausanias took all the seated and kneeling figures for grooms . |
| 83 | 1730 " That there is a new church to be builded in Killdaltane parish , and alsoe the churches of Killearow & Kilchoman to be repaird " For building and repairing churches in Islay 300:0:0 |
| 84 | 1730 " That there is a new church to be builded in Killdaltane parish , and alsoe the churches of Killearow & Kilchoman to be repaird " For building and repairing churches in Islay 300:0:0 |
| 85 | The efforts of the Russian Formalists were directed towards justifying the independent existence of literary studies , and transforming students of literature into something more than second-rate ethnographers , historians or philosophers . |
| 86 | As I recall , the grand swell of opposition which occurred with regard to abandoning the classes of corporate membership and allowing self-advertisement by members of a professional body was not heeded . |
| 87 | As a child I made these , covering the kitchen in ingredients and allowing balls of mixture to roll all over the place , only to be found six months later behind the toaster . |
| 88 | Space is often one of the most limiting factors in any attempt to create a genuinely open-ended learning situation , and planning for its most effective use puts heavy demands on the imagination and organizing ability of teachers and administrators . |
| 89 | Linear arrangement , then , has a role to play in processing information and organizing messages at text level . |
| 90 | While councils are striving to avoid compulsory redundancies and adopting restrictions on recruitment , freezing posts and voluntary severance as alternative , compulsory redundancies are taking place . |